This goodhearted documentary about a Canadian heavy-metal band called Anvil, which never made it big but keeps banging away even though its members are in their 50s, strikes a sweet balance between sympathy and ridicule. Yes, there are echoes of the classic mock documentary This is Spinal Tap, but Anvil is a real band.
Grade: B+
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Guess I’m too much of a muggle to follow the plot of Harry Potter movies, but I love the details of his wizard world – newspaper photos that move, books that jump back onto shelves and memories that are distilled into test tubes. It’s also entertaining to watch the action of the Quidditch matches and the blossoming romances among Harry, Hermione, Ron and friends.
Grade: B+
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In Paris before World War I, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a retired courtesan who says she’ll never fall in love but then does – with an androgynous 19-year-old boy. It’s campy but dull, like a bad blend of Andy Warhol and Merchant-Ivory.
Grade: C-
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I don’t quite know how to review this film — it is the funniest movie I’ve seen in 10 years, but the filthiest movie I’ve seen in my whole life. Bruno is so hilariously obscene, I’m 48 and felt like I should have been escorted by an adult.
Grade: B+
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This is one of those 19th century bodice-rippers about an older courtesan in lust with a teenage stud. Frankly, the description I just gave you is more erotic than the actual film, which plods along at a snail’s pace and fades out just as the love scenes get hot.
Grade: C
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On paper, it’s unpromising: Woody Allen rolls out a New York comedy about a naïve Southern belle who comes to the city and falls for a curmudgeonly genius who is so annoying that he even talks directly to the audience. But Larry David can do curmudgeon in his sleep, Allen’s writing is witty and light, and Evan Rachel Wood (the belle) is so adorable and funny that – what do you know – it works!
Grade: B
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You’d think a movie about guys with machine guns and hatcheck girls would be more fun, but Public Enemies drags on like a three-hour funeral dirge. Yeah, Johnny Depp is pretty cool, but overall, the film feels as heavy as a wet fedora.
Grade: C
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Note to Woody Allen from a pissed off fan: Why don’t you take two or twenty years off and TRY TO COME UP WITH SOME NEW IDEAS? Whatever Works is the eightieth time you’ve remade Manhattan, and if I wanted to see that again, I would have WATCHED THE FRICKING DVD!
Grade: D
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